The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Benevolent Fund

Analysis

The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Benevolent Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Salisbury. It was registered in December 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and accommodation/housing, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Benevolent Fund reported income of £17k and spending of £13k, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £14k to £17k (+17%), an average of +3.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Benevolent Fund sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 41st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Endowment Fund of the Providence Free Hospital, St Helens (£17k), Gulmi Jilla Samaj UK (£17k) and Habitation of Hope (£17k).